Hugh Nini and Neal Treadwell spent 25 years collecting over 4,000 secret photographs of men in love from the 1850s to 1950s. Their book Loving is one of the most quietly radical history projects in recent memory.

Íngrid Olderöck was the most feared woman in Pinochet's secret police. A self-declared Nazi, first female paratrooper in Latin America, and DINA's most notorious torturer, her story is one of the darkest from Chile's dictatorship.

King Adolf Frederick of Sweden reportedly demolished lobster, caviar, champagne, and 14 cream buns before dying in 1771. But did the semlor actually kill him? The truth is weirder than the legend.